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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've only had time to watch the first 30 minutes.

I am seeing Idris's difficulty with school but not seeing so far much connection with him being AFrican American.   THey are saying the school thinks he may have ADHD but someone (the dad?   psychiatrist) doesn't think he resembles kids with ADHD...

But he looks exactly like my (white) child at that age who had significant Executive Function Disorder.    It was painful watching Idris upset at having worked on some story for 2 weeks but then having apparently left or forgotten it somewhere. [/quote]

I'm AA with a child that age, too, and was wondering the same thing as I know several boys of different races with ADHD.  However, I'm also aware that AA boys are disproportionately labelled learning disabled.

While on one hand I found AP moving, I didn't get it's premise of what happens to our AA boys (psychologically) who attend predominantly white & affluent private schools.  I was expecting experiences of teachers viewing the boys as intellectually inferior or the boys being conditioned from pk-high school to believe that their white counterparts are intellectually superior.  My son and peers have encountered both situations.[/quote]

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